Super cute monster! We have a ton of those containers as they make great storage containers! But might have to give one up to do something like this. I know my 13 month old would love sticking things inside the monsters mouth!

I have a 6.5yo who is in Grade 1 at school (Australia) and is struggling with his fine motor skills. Give him an iPad and he does really well, he reads well and he is good at maths. But writing anything is a struggle and he hates the traditional ideas. There are some great ideas here but can you point me to anything specific that a “too cool for school” active boy might enjoy? Many thanks, Nicola

[…] Pinterest binges, I saw this great idea for helping with fine motor skills. They’d created a monster out of an wet wipe box and then the task was to feed it with pom poms and different things. It was […]

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